Summary:
Morgantown, Kentucky, has five schools: two elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools, including Butler County Learning Center, which serves grades 6–12. The clearest overall finding is that all four schools with reportable current test results averaged below the state across their matched results, by about 4 percentage points.
The results vary by school and subject. Morgantown Elementary School and Butler County Middle School averaged about 3 points below the state; North Butler Elementary averaged 5 points below, and Butler County High School averaged 10 points below. The elementary schools have different strengths: Morgantown’s fourth-grade science proficiency was 50%, versus North Butler’s 35% and the state’s 40%; North Butler’s fourth-grade reading was 57%, versus Morgantown’s 47% and the state’s 50%. The high school’s 95% graduation rate was slightly above the state’s 94%, despite its larger test-score gap. The Learning Center stands out for chronic absenteeism: 65%, compared with 24% statewide and 17% districtwide; its school-level test results are suppressed, so its academic results cannot be compared.
Recent test-score changes also differ: North Butler gained an average of 5 points per test over two years, while Morgantown fell 5 points, the middle school fell 3, and the high school fell 2. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide percentile rankings were 43 for Morgantown, 40 for the middle school, 38 for North Butler, and 24 for the high school; North Butler rose from 28 the previous year, while Morgantown fell from 56. As context, in 2024–2025 Morgantown had a 17.9 student-teacher ratio and 63% free/reduced lunch eligible, while North Butler had a 16.9 ratio and 58% free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures offer context, not an explanation for the schools’ results.
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